Pourquoi pas!
France
, 93 min
Shown in 1978
CREDITS
- dir
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Coline Serreau
- scr
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Coline Serreau
- cam
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Jean-François Robin
- cast
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Sami Frey, Mario Gonzalez, Christine Murillo, Michel Aumont, Nicole Jamet, Mathe Souverbie
- prod co
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Dismage; SND Production
- source
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The Robert A. McNeil Corporation
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COMMENTS
Coline Serreau in person.
OTHER
This unusual comedy about a bisexual ménage-à-trois-plus-one is the first feature-length drama by Coline Serreau, who has previously been an actress, scriptwriter and documentary filmmaker. The main character is played by Sami Frey, who takes care of both his male lover (a disturbed, childlike musician) and his female roommate (who has left her husband and earns the money for this household). Then he meets a rather dizzy upper-class girl and falls for her, throwing the general arrangement into crisis. The film becomes a modern version of the classic screwball comedy, with some gently stated social commentary underlying the protagonists’ contacts with “normal” society. Ms. Serreau is a new talent to watch and the film remarkably and appropriately never implies that any of the main characters are strange, rather the world in which they are trying to live.
FACTOID #33
French New Wave actress Jeanne Moreau’s 1974 Festival tribute, called “a veritable orgy” for her fans by the Examiner’s Stanley Eichelbaum, included screenings of four films (The Lovers, Jules and Jim, Bay of Angels and Diary of a Chambermaid), an onstage interview with Moreau and an additional two hours of clips. Running nine to 11 hours (depending on the source), the tribute was the longest recorded at the Festival.
